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Lufthansa/United begin push for anti-trust protection
Andrzej Jeziorski/MUNICH LUFTHANSA SAYS that it will apply "immediately" for anti-trust immunity for its alliance with United Airlines, following the signature of a preliminary open-skies agreement between the USA and Germany. German transport minister Matthias Wissman and his US counterpart Federico Pe¤a reached an accord after ...
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Ansett fleet plans defined
Paul Phelan/CAIRNS ANSETT AUSTRALIA has detailed interim plans to increase its widebody fleet to provide a 10% capacity increase on key business routes. The carrier also wants to reduce its fleet from eight to five types, and to retire its Stage 3 Boeing 727s and Fokker ...
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Russia's air-traffic volume continues to fall
TRAFFIC VOLUMES in Russia have fallen for the fifth successive year, according to the Russian Transport Department's 1995 annual report, due to be published on 16 February. The latest decline leaves passenger numbers at barely one-third of 1990's peak, when 90.7 million boardings were recorded in Russia, then part of ...
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Virgin closes on low-cost European airline start-up deal
VIRGIN IS NEGOTIATING to buy a controlling stake in Brussels-based Euro Belgian Airlines (EBA), which could form the backbone of long-standing ambitions by Virgin's owner, Richard Branson, to set up a low-cost European operation. Virgin has completed a detailed study into launching a start-up carrier at Brussels, probably ...
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DASA wants Airbus to scale down large-aircraft plans
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE partner Daimler-Benz Aerospace (DASA) wants the consortium to drop its A3XX 500- to 650-plus-passenger aircraft study in favour of a 400- to 550-seat aircraft to rival new stretched variants of the Boeing 747 now under study. The DASA move comes in the wake of recent bruising ...
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Air Transport
Winner: Bombardier Regional Aircraft Location: Ontario, Canada Achievement: Helping carriers to exploit the benefits of open skies, with new low-cost, direct air services using the 50-seat Canadair Regional Jet. FROM THE OUTSET, Bombardier designed its 50-seat Canadair Regional Jet to help airlines open up new ...
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...as Air France risks unrest
AIR FRANCE PRESIDENT Christian Blanc has renounced long-standing agreements with pilots of subsidiary domestic carrier Air France Europe (the new name for Air Inter) risking further strike action at the airline. Blanc wants to bring Air Inter Europe into line with the existing union agreements with Air France ...
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Aerospace mergers begin to reshape US industry ranking
Kevin O'Toole/LONDON WITH YEAR-END results now in for most of the major US aerospace groups, the effect of mergers and acquisitions are beginning to show through in the industry rankings. Lockheed Martin, as predicted, has pushed ahead of strike-hit Boeing in the world league table, and ...
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Aer Lingus / Delta share
Delta Airlines has signed a codeshare agreement with Aer Lingus, under which the US airline will buy blocked space on the Irish flag carrier's services between New York and Shannon/Dublin. Joint services will begin 1 May, subject to US Government approval. Source: Flight International
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Boeing examines longest-range 777 yet
BOEING IS studying an ultra-long-range 777-200 as a possible alternative to the development of the smaller-capacity short-bodied -100X. The study has been prompted by airline demand for an ultra-long-haul aircraft combining the range of the -100X with the higher capacity of the -200. Boeing hopes that the move ...
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Air UK Leisure set to replace Boeing 737-400 fleet
AIR UK LEISURE is set to order four narrowbody airliners to replace its fleet of seven Boeing 737-400s, which will be withdrawn from service by 30 April. The UK charter carrier says that it has short-listed the 737-800 and Airbus A320/321. Meanwhile, the airline will operate three leased ...
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IAE steps up V2500 campaign
INTERNATIONAL AERO Engines (IAE) is engaged in around 30 active sales campaigns and, in 1996, it hopes to equal or exceed 1995's record sales effort when V2500 orders worth more than $1.6 billion were taken. "We are active right around the Pacific rim in 1996 and we see ...
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Airbus closes on A330-200 sale
AIRBUS CLAIMS to be in final negotiations with Korean Air (KAL) and two other unidentified international carriers to place the first orders for the recently launched A330-200 "shrink". According to Airbus senior vice-president John Leahy, KAL is looking for between 12 and 15 A330-200s, and up to six ...
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BA to equip European fleet with TCAS 2
BRITISH AIRWAYS WILL announce this week that it is fitting traffic-alert and collision-avoidance systems (TCAS 2) to its 116-aircraft short-haul fleet The airline is the first major European carrier to order the TCAS 2 for its entire fleet. Its 102 long-haul aircraft are already fitted with the system, ...
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Flightline to take surplus BAe146s
THE FIRST OF 18 surplus USAir British Aerospace 146-200s will soon re-enter commercial service with UK-based Flightline. The UK firm formally accepted the aircraft from USAir Leasing on 5 January. The aircraft, leased via Alpine Aviation, will be used on a London-Switzerland route. Before its acceptance, ...
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MDC reveals its long-term plan for MD-11 plan
McDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is in the final stages of defining two new versions of the MD-11, which will enable the company to compete head-to-head with Airbus and Boeing in the Boeing 747-100/200 replacement market and the emerging extra-long-range market. "We got to the point that we had to ...
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Twenty years young
The Concorde is set to remain in airline service for up to another 20 years. Andrew Doyle/LONDON THE BRITISH AEROSPACE/Aerospatiale Concorde is a unique airliner in many ways, not least because it has been in revenue service for two decades and there is still no new aircraft ...
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Talk this way
A Swedish-led technology could provide a key element of the Future Air Navigation System. Kieran Daly/LONDON THE GLOBAL-NAVIGATION satellite-system-synchronised, self-organising, time-division, multiple-access (STDMA) data- link really needs a much better name. It is one thing for the dedicated souls serving on the International Civil Aviation ...
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Metros for Malaysia
Asia Pacific Airlines, has added four new 19-seat Fairchild Metro 23s, to facilitate its expansion into local scheduled services. The Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia based company has been operating a single Metro 23, since the middle of 1995. The new aircraft will be delivered with a 50kg reduced operating weight. ...
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Ryanair rebuffed by Irish Government
RYANAIR, THE independent low-fare Irish airline, is to re-assess its expansion plans for Dublin following the rejection by the Irish Government of its plan for a second city airport at Baldonnel's Casement Aerodrome, now used by the Irish Air Corps. Chairman Tony Ryan had proposed the move, to ...